Upward Mobility

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Upward Mobility : the capacity or facility for rising to a higher social or economic position
Merriam-Webster

Feel free to explain how you plan on moving up, I myself think that if I learn my current job better, I'll wind up being paid enough to afford a house and family. Just in case though, I plan on taking classes on the side.

If you don't think you'll move up, feel free to explain that as well. My barrier to school is the time constraint. Since I attend a community college and I earn well above minimum, cost isn't a barrier.

6.5 - 7 yrs if everything goes as planned.
Shooting for DNP. We'll see. (Hey, that rhymed!)
The math could be a problem.

It's merely an illusion... besides, even if taken literally, one would need a rocket, and then it's not sensible to be upward for no specific reason, either... but seriously, it affects not the enjoyment of art, nor does it help anyone find love...

For someone to move up, someone else has to move down.

Well I expect up since I can't really go down, I would of really wasted a lot of time if it doesn't get better.

Oh, it does get better in the end...

Well, the poll numbers reflect optimism, though I've gotta say some of those responses are kinda depressing. Kudos to everyone fighting the good fight, I'd never put myself through a PhD program myself. I think the struggle for self improvement can affect our appreciation of the arts, it broadens our experiences in ways we ourselves might never have chosen.

Upward mobility only works for people who kiss ass and brown nose everyone and their brother. Those of us that worked our Keisters off to get where we were only got sh!t upon. I gave up trying to move upward years ago. I've also pretty much gave up on almost everything else, since the only thing people would do to me (and still do) is piss and sh!t on me. And people wonder why I have such a negative attitude...

Meistersinger, your spirits seem completely broken. There are a lot of NT-centric careers that reward people skills over personal merit, I know that; but I think there are careers that focus on results too, especially STEM careers. Do you feel like you have anything to look forward to?

Right now I'm just getting by. I'm living with my parents because my first career ended, but I did manage to get a job offer from Walmart.

On the side, I'm studying Python Programming and hoping I can get skilled enough to get freelance work and then gradually advance.

At my age and health, no. I've learned long ago that if you're over 30, forget about employers even looking at you, especially when one's work history is as bad as mine. I would be out sick at least one day per month, due to stress. (Try telling your parents that, when they were old school, meaning we don't give a damn how you feel, GET YER DAMN FAT ASS OUT OF BED AND GET TO WORK!)

Can't say I've ever understood it - social mobility, keeping up with the Joneses, all that.

I'd like a larger, more private house, and a few more musical instruments. But, I ought to put more time in on the instruments I have, and there's things I could do to improve the house I live in now that I don't, so my commitment probably isn't all that much.

I'd like to find an area or three of interest and stick to them. Try my hand at a few more modes of artistic expression. Become better read. That sort of thing.

I don't know. I really can't answer this.

I don't even know what I'd like to do with myself, I just have an increasingly long list of things I know I won't or can't do... a lot of the things in the "can't" category make it seem like a morgue for my dead dreams. Eventually I'll find something that kind of works for me but I don't even know where to start looking.

My current job is an absolute dead end and I'm not especially fond of it. The things I've wanted to do are things I can't (autism is too big a disadvantage for those fields). So... a bit lost, really. Life in a holding pattern.